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The Tu Tu’ Tun Lodge in Oregon takes top billing.

The higest rated Texas hotel is the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin.  Actually, I think it’s the only Texas hotel on the list.

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Dieters have been flocking to drugstores to pick up Alli, the first over-the-counter weight-loss pill to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, despite the scary warning: Stray too far from your low-fat diet and you just might poop your pants.

The drug’s maker, GlaxoSmithKline, has been up front about the pill’s side effects, suggesting that first timers wear dark pants or bring a change of clothes to work until they get used to the diet pill’s potentially yucky consequences.

Still, it seems there’s no shortage of people willing to risk public humiliation to shed a few pounds. And even though pharmacist Miyuki Anderson, who works at a Bartell Drugs in Seattle, warns everyone who eyes the Alli display about the messy side effects, it doesn’t stop most of them from buying the diet pill.

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And some customer testimonials:

• “(I)’ve pooped my pants 3 times today, and sorry to get descriptive but it even leaked onto the couch at one point!” writes one user.

• “(Y)a know how when you start moving around in the morning ya pass a little gas. Well, I did and then went into the bathroom and to my horror I had an orange river of grease running down my leg.”

Until Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the first presidential library in 1941 and transferred it to the federal government, there were no official repositories designed especially to preserve and make accessible the records of Presidents. It was 16 years before another presidential library opened—this time under the provisions of the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955.

These libraries, all built with nonfederal funds then donated to the federal government, are operated and maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration and staffed by NARA employees who care for the archival records and the museum collections and make them available for research. Although the libraries are federal facilities, they also draw support from affiliated foundations or institutes that help underwrite research grants, outreach programs, exhibits, and other program and facility enhancements.

Source and more on the 50th Anniversary of the Presidential Libraries Act

This was the first I heard of the Nixon Library joining the system, thought I would have heard more about it in the news.  I know for the longest time it was trying to gain entry as a federal facility.

Here is a list of all the presidential libraries that have a webpage as provided by the National Archives:

A few observations:

• The Nixon logo strikes me as a bit odd:
  
• The Reagan Library’s website seems to be running off of the University of Texas’ system:  http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/
• I would have thought that all of the websites would look extremely professional, but I think a lot of them come up short.  The worst of the bunch would have to be the George Bush Library.  All that red font on the home page is very distracting.

Then check this out.

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